Alec Robert Harrell

Rice, Hall, James & Associates LLC (Rice Hall James) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in San Diego, California. Founded in 1974, Rice Hall James manages assets for public and corporate pension funds, Taft-Hartley pension plans, foundations, endowments, financial institutions and high-net-worth individuals, throughout multiple market cycles and in various environments.

Founded in 2005, Convergent Fund Management LLC is a registered investment advisor located in Santa Monica, California. The firm offers investment management services to institutional and high-net worth investors

Needelman Asset Management, Inc. (Needelman) is a wealth management firm and registered investment advisor headquartered in Ladera Ranch, California, founded by Chet Needelman in 2002. Needelman is a subsidiary of Spectrum Asset Management, Inc., an SEC-registered investment adviser, whose principal owner is Ryan L. Kelly. The firm provides investment management services to high net-worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations and corporations.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Northern Trust Investments, Inc. (Investment Management) (NTI-IM) is the asset management division of Northern Trust Investments, Inc., ultimately held by Northern Trust Corp. (NASDAQGS: NTRS), a multi-bank holding company that was established in 1889. The firm was founded in 1988 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. NTI-IM provides a wide range of discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory and sub-advisory services to individual and institutional clients.